My first published story! Please let me know what you think! Also first chapters are NOT my strong point so please press on - it will get better!
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I have not nor ever will own Star Trek *sigh*
It was dark and cold outside, but she had nowhere else to go. She pushed the doors of the bar open and took a few ginger steps inside. A floorboard squeaked…
Silence
She could feel every eye in the room focused on her, boring into her skin, each gaze filled with pure hatred. She closed her eyes and took one more step forward. Then she felt 12 pairs of strong arms grab her, lifting her far off the floor and moving her backwards out of the door. She heard it creak open and then she was flying through the air. Her eyes still closed as she felt the sudden crunch as she collided with the rocky road.
Pain
She rolled into a ball and clutched her ribs. They'd definitely broken a couple of them this time. Tears began to roll down her face as hatred and anger began to course through her body.
Beneath her the earth began to shake…
~*~
James T. Kirk was sitting leisurely in his chair on the bridge, comfortably surveying everything around him. For once, everything seemed normal and there was nothing to worry about.
Around him, he watched his crew going about there business as normal, giving a small sigh of contentment.
I wonder how long this peace will last? he contemplated silently, but as soon as he'd thought it he heard someone speak behind him.
'Captain,' came the soft voice of Lieutenant Uhura behind him, 'I'm picking up a transmission, it sounds like a distress call.'
'Ok, lets have it.' Kirk replied slowly, slightly cursing his own thoughts for peace - now he'd thought it, it was never going to happen, 'Put it on visual.'
'Aye Captain.'
Immediately an image appeared in front of him. An single man stood there, in what appeared to be some sort of office, however Kirk had never seen either of them before. There was a slight paused before the man spoke.
'Good day to you. My name is John Denogar from the colony on Delta 9.425.'
Kirk nodded and replied, 'I am Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise, what is the nature of your distress call?'
The man looked around, as if scared something was watching him, before he leaned in closer and spoke again, a prominent note of fear in his voice this time,
'Although we have settled here for some time, recently my people have been terrorised by a series of disasters caused a terrible being. We would much appreciate your help in this matter, we've done all we can but nothing seem to work.' The fear had spread to his eyes now, 'I beg you would help us.'
Kirk stood there and considered, staring hard at the man as if mulling the decision over, but in his mind he had already made his choice.
'Alright, we will help you,' he turned to the crew and began to issue orders.
'Thank-you Captain, I will supply you with co-ordinates to my office - you may beam down there.' There was a soft beep of equipment and he read out a set of numbers, which were recorded. Kirk glanced around to ask Scotty a question but when he turned back, only seconds later the visual was gone, evidentially this John Denogar didn't want to hang around.
Perhaps there really was something there.
Immediately Kirk got up and moved across the bridge, speaking as he moved,
'Mr Spock,' he paused beside the first officer, 'come with me,' 'Lieutenant Uhura, message security and have 2 guards meet us in the transporter room, then tell Dr McCoy to do the same'
'Aye Captain.'
As he finished he moved swiftly to the door, closely followed by his first officer, speaking again when the door slid open.
'Scotty you have the conn.'
~*~
Some time later they beamed down to the planet, using the coordinates they'd been given. The group found themselves in a spacious entrance hall, with gleaming tiles under their feet and soft lights on the walls. Somewhere there was a sound of rain tapping on glass.
From somewhere to their left, a man's voice spoke,
'Captain Kirk?'
Kirk looked round for the speaker, but he couldn't see anyone apart from his crew,
'Yes?' he said slowly, a hand reaching slowly for his phaser.
The was a soft click somewhere to his left, and the group looked round to see a door opening and watched as man emerged and walked briskly towards them. He had close cropped grey hair, worry lines etched deep into his face and his dark eyes darted left and right as he moved. He was dressed in a dark shirt and trousers with a long, heavy robe over the top which had sleeves so big, the ends brushed against the tiles, swishing with every step.
'Do not be alarmed, please. Thank you for coming to our aid.' he said softly as he reached them, stretching out his arm to shake Kirk's hand. As he had gotten closer, Kirk realised he had seen that face before. It was the man who had issued the distress call.
'John Denogar I presume?'
'Yes, I am very pleased to meet you,' he added, turning to the rest of the crew, 'likewise I am very pleased to see so many of you come to our aid.'
'Of course,' Kirk nodded, 'This is my Chief Medical Officer Dr McCoy,'
'Excellent, pleased to meet you.'
'My first officer, Mr Spock,'
'a Vulcan, I have not had the honour before.'
'and security officers Jones and Smith.'
'A wise choice to bring security, sir.'
As he was introduced to each member he nodded or shook hands, seemingly quite pleased at the number of the party, as a slightly relaxed look appeared across his worn features.
'Now, if you would follow me to my office Captain, I can discuss the matter with you all further. After that I can take you to .. Well we'll come to that later. Please follow me.' with this, he turned and walked off down a corridor to the right.
Kirk nodded for the crew to follow but hung back slightly, speaking quietly to McCoy under his breath.
'What do you think Bones?'
'Well Jim, he just seems a little pompous.'
'Yes, but there's something I can't quite put my finger on.'
'What do you mean?'
'I think he's hiding something.' Kirk finished, deep in thought.
There was definitely something going on, the problem was, there were no clues as to what.
To Be Continued - yes I know this is a pretty short chapter but I really wanted to get the start of it up (to encourage me to write more!)
